Good Morning MOTleyville, It's Saturday March 23rd, 2013
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Fishing boat’s close encounter with gray whales
You have to watch the video.
there isn't much of a write up ! sorry about the ad, I don't know how to get rid of those!
do octopus interest you?
Mimic Octopus Makes Home on Great Barrier Reef
Of all the amazing octopus species out there, the mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus, is perhaps the most bewildering. While most known octopuses are able to change color and shape for camouflage, mimic octopuses can also impersonate other animals to deter would-be predators. They can contort their bodies and long, striped arms to look--and swim--like other (less edible) sea life, including lionfish, sole and banded sea snakes.
These implausible creatures were only first discovered by scientists in the 1990s in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Since then, the mimic octopuses have been found in various waters around that island country, but not too much farther afield. They are generally active during the day but live primarily on obscuring sandy or muddy sea floors--down to about seven meters.
But these odd octopuses have now made a confirmed appearance on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, more than 2,000 kilometers from where they were first described. Divers had reported sightings of these strange cephalopods in recent years, but Darren Coker, a researcher at James Cook University's ARC Center for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, verified this species' presence there, in a report published online earlier this month in Marine Biodiversity Records.
ok in the dumb news of the day !
Woman’s house burned down by snake she set on fire
While cleaning up, she saw a snake, threw gasoline on the snake, lit the snake on fire,” Bowie County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Randall Baggett told the station. “The snake went into the brush pile, and the brush pile caught the home on fire.”
Oddly enough, a local fire department official says the incident isn’t as unique as one might think.
"Yes, it could happen with rabbits and big field mice,” Liberty Eylau Fire Chief David Wesslehoft told the station. “Once they start burning the grass, they get out of their hole. They have been known to catch fire and then take off."